HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-03-17 Malissa Bernard
Adrienne Weatherly
From:Mike and Malissa Bernard <MMBERNARD1@msn.com>
Sent:Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:50 PM
To:City Clerk
Cc:Caleb Hood; Bill Parsons; Sonya Allen; Frank Marcos; Sandi King; Paul Miller; Ken
Clifford; Mike and Malissa Bernard
Subject:For the Honorable Mayor of Meridian, the Planning and Zoning Commission, the City
of Meridian City Council, for the Planning staff at the City of Meridian
Dear Clerk,
Please distribute to the Mayor, P and Z, and to the City Council. Thank you so very much!
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To the Honorable Mayor Robert Simison, to the City of Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission, to the City of
Meridian City Council, and to the Staff of the City of Meridian Planning Department:
In reference to an infill development on approximately 16-acres known as the Delano subdivision.
For many months citizens have been writing and calling ACHD; citizens have been writing and calling the City of Meridian
Planning Department; citizens have written to the Planning and Zoning Commission; citizens have been writing their
City Councilmembers, and many citizens have written to two Mayors as well with a concern about cut-through traffic,
the loss of important character of a neighborhood, and the impacts of a small infill project known as Delano. Citizens
have met with planning staff on several occasions. Citizens have come to hearings, meetings, more hearings, and more
meetings to come.
It seems a smaller infill gets much more consideration than a subdivision that is well over 90 acres with 211 homes on it,
all on larger R-4 lots. This Delano concept of 66 SFR and 86 MFR on 16 acres is on paper, and could be vastly improved
to be more harmonious and complementary to all.
Are we being heard? Are we being considered?
Neighbors are supportive of an emergency access/bike/pedestrian connectivity at N Dashwood Pl, because if you open
this street to vehicles will cause it to be a de facto collector street in every sense, and we have made many attempts to
illustrate this possibility in every way to the applicant of Delano, to the City staff, to the Council, to the P and Z
Commission, to ACHD, and to our honorable Mayors.
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I will refer you to the 11 page of the Staff Report for the Planning and Zoning Commission for March 19, 2020.
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The Citizens of Alpine Pointe have a commercial collector that was never signed, and this collector was not on the MSM
plan online to view as its true form until 2018. This commercial collector at Wainwright/Centrepoint is not assigned
ownership at the Ada County Land Records search, and no neighbors knew that a grassy strip was to be a 50-foot full
blown commercial collector off of Wainwright.
Furthermore, N Dashwood Pl was never signed as a “street to be continued in the future.” N Dashwood Pl was and
always has been a cul-de-sac. It was not until the Delano application came forth that it was deemed a “stub” and then
the “stub” was revealed to neighbors of Alpine Pointe. Neighbors made huge financial purchases based on the streets
that were signed to be continued, and those that were not signed. In fact, if I were to buy my home today it would be a
$600,000 purchase. Many neighbors have medical needs in my neighborhood, and have made the additional
investment of tens of thousands to modify their homes for their particular needs, decisions made on the absence of a
$50 sign that was not posted on a cul-de-sac that was unknown as a “stub”.
We ask you as neighbors to reconsider this recommendation in your Staff Report. We, as neighbors, feel that N
Dashwood Pl as a “stub” should be abandoned, in perpetuity, to eliminate a de facto collector situation forever. We are
not against connectivity as an emergency lane/bike/pedestrian in perpetuity, however; this has occurred at Three
Corners Ranch at two “stub” roads, Bridgetower Heights in 2013, the Bear Creek Subdivision near Lowes in South
Meridian…all Meridian stubs that did not connect to vehicular traffic. With the high density, the heavy commercial, the
three story Stellar project, the existing Brickyard, and the rest of this infill that is coming, the street to carry this
development should be the intended Commercial Collector of Centrepoint Way and not an eight home cul-de-sac that
was never signed as a street to be continued in the future.
In absence of solving the issue of N Dashwood Pl as a closed stub to vehicle traffic in perpetuity, I will ask you all to
consider denial of this application. A split neighborhood concept might be a better route to prevent a de facto collector
situation, and the City of Meridian Planning Staff and the applicant have been shown a divided concept before on
several occasions.
I ask the Honorable Mayor Robert Simison, the Planning and Zoning Commission, and the City Council of Meridian to
consider the character of a 211 home subdivision that has been retrofitted to handle a disproportionate amount of
vehicular traffic for this City square mile that has two Cities on it. With infill, traffic should be directed to a collector
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street designed to handle the traffic and not forced through a neighborhood that did not know that unsigned cul-de-sacs
are stubs, and unsigned grassy strips are collector streets to be continued in the future.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Malissa Bernard
4025 N Dashwood Pl
Meridian ID 83646
mmbernard1@msn.com
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